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Make sure to read our Community Guidelines and this Navy Operations Security (OPSEC) checklist - loose lips sink ships!
Join groups! Browse for groups for your PIR date, your sailor's occupational specialty, "A" school, assigned ship, homeport city, your own city or state, and a myriad of other interests. Jump in and introduce yourself! Start making friends that can last a lifetime.
Link to Navy Speak - Navy Terms & Acronyms: Navy Speak
All Hands Magazine's full length documentary "Making a Sailor": This video follows four recruits through Boot Camp in the spring of 2018 who were assigned to DIV 229, an integrated division, which had PIR on 05/25/2018.
Boot Camp: Making a Sailor (Full Length Documentary - 2018)
Boot Camp: Behind the Scenes at RTC
...and visit Navy.com - America's Navy and Navy.mil also Navy Live - The Official Blog of the Navy to learn more.
OPSEC - Navy Operations Security
Always keep Navy Operations Security in mind. In the Navy, it's essential to remember that "loose lips sink ships." OPSEC is everyone's responsibility.
DON'T post critical information including future destinations or ports of call; future operations, exercises or missions; deployment or homecoming dates.
DO be smart, use your head, always think OPSEC when using texts, email, phone, and social media, and watch this video: "Importance of Navy OPSEC."
Follow this link for OPSEC Guidelines:
Events
**UPDATE 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:
In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.
**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.
RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021
Please note! Changes to this guide happened in October 2017. Tickets are now issued for all guests, and all guests must have a ticket to enter base. A separate parking pass is no longer needed to drive on to base for parking.
Please see changes to attending PIR in the PAGES column. The PAGES are located under the member icons on the right side.
Format Downloads:
- Graduation Info
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
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Latest Activity: Feb 24, 2019
Discussion Forum
Tiger Cruise
Started by Michiganbelle. Last reply by MyLAS (My Lips are SEALed) Nov 20, 2015. 9 Replies 2 Likes
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Comment by jenismer on February 1, 2015 at 1:46pm
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I found it and sent a request.
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Comment by casb8 on February 1, 2015 at 7:50am
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Michiganbelle can you please tell us more about the Family Readiness Group for the Oscar Austin.
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Comment by Michiganbelle on February 1, 2015 at 12:28am
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FRG is Family Readiness Group for Oscar Austin, it is a FaceBook page
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Is this FRG FB a different page than the OA page?
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Hello Canita28 and welcome. This weekend I am gông to Norfolk to attend a function with the FRG, I look foward to connecting with other OA family members. This week the FRG FB was visited a couple times by the Captain to keep us posted on the slow delivery of our care packages that we have been sending. Can't begin to imagine where they will store all those goodies, once they catch up to them! I heard from my sailor a couple of times so far. They sure are working hard, I was glad to hear they were able to spend a little time away from they ship and relax a little
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Comment by Tysmom on January 24, 2015 at 9:38pm
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Hello canita28! Two months down and 5 to go. I'm so glad to meet other OA moms. Let's all keep in touch and share any information.
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Tysmon and Michiganbelle my son was one of the new sailors that just joined the Oscar Austin. We had gone to visit him in Norfolk and spent about 10 minutes with him when he got the call! I'm glad we got to spend a little time with him before he left but most of it was transporting him and his paperwork form one location to another and packing him up to go. Life in the Navy, lol.
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I had heard from my sailor there were some new sailors on OA so I was thinking that some did meet them where they are at. I am glad that I have gotten a couple of calls when they get to a port
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Hi casb8. My son is also on the Oscar Austin. Did your son join the ship mid-deployment or right before they shipped out from Norfolk?
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Hi, my son just joined the Oscar Austin.
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